There are many lovely front porches in Chesapeake City, all tastefully decorated!
A long walk along the canal gave Archie a chance to be off leash for awhile.
After returning to Zendo, Jonny did some MTOA work while I updated the blog, we heard the catastrophic news about the Supreme Court taking away one of the rights of American women in their overturning of Roe v. Wade. - a giant step backwards for women’s rights!
But like with everything, life continues and we took off at noon for Delaware City where we would stay for three nights. Originally we were going to drive our car (which Jonny had positioned there ) to Philadelphia and stay with Stephanie and Ryan for the weekend. But since they both came down with Covid, we are limiting ourselves to a brief outdoor visit on Sunday.
Upon arriving at the Delaware City Marina, Tim, the owner who we like a lot, positioned us at the far end of the marina’s one lone dock thinking that several more boats would be arriving and we would be staying longer.
We definitely got our steps in over the next few days but we didn’t mind. Archie loves Delaware City, as do we, because there are wonderful walkways, along the waterfront through town and along the canal for miles of beautiful open meadows. Archie must have walked three miles for our one, criss-crossing the walkway as he roamed free and chased rabbits and squirrels.
He was, however, very naughty on the second morning there when he jumped off the boat and wandered all the way down the dock and up to the marina office. One of the other boaters picked him up and returned him to us. Now Archie has to be tied up while he’s on deck. The little rascal can’t be fully trusted!
On Saturday, we went to West Marine to get a few provisions and then on to Wilmington to meet Kerry, Ryan’s mom, for lunch at a waterfront beer pub. She had purchased two pairs of sandals for me at Costco and I wanted to get them from her. We had a very nice time chatting away. Unfortunately, Tim, Ryan’s dad, was out of town at a motorcycle gathering. Afterwards, we did a pretty big shopping expedition at the local Costco, some of which we’ll bring to Stephanie’s the next day.
We had had such a big lunch that we skipped dinner and just took Archie for another long walk. His forays into the grassy field required us to do tick searches before letting him back inside. Our assiduous pre-walk bug spraying resulted in only finding one tick on him this visit!
Sunday was another busy day. First we stopped at Costco again to exchange one of the pairs of sandals (the wrong size was in one of the boxes), then drove to Philly to have lunch with Stephanie and Ryan. We ordered delicious pork sandwiches from a local favorite and met them in a park near their home. Wearing masks, we sat in lawn chairs six feet apart and enjoyed our lunch and catching up on the latest. Here’s hoping that dogs don’t spread Covid because Archie was happy to cuddle up with Stephanie for a good part of our visit! Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures but here’s an older one of the kids masked up.
Afterwards we went by their house to pick up several boxes of items that we had had mailed to them. All this while standing outside. It must have seemed curious to their neighbors!
Back at Zendo, we just relaxed and eventually walked into town for ice cream at a cute shop there.
We sat on the historic waterfront of Delaware City enjoying our treat and our last night in Delaware City.
We planned to leave for Cape May the next day but had some concerns because the weather prediction on the Delaware Bay was not great. We wouldn’t hesitate to stay a day longer but we’ll leave if we can because we don’t have too many days before we need to be in Greenport, NY on far eastern Long Island by July 6. That evening we finished watching a Denzel Washington movie called Devil with a Blue Dress which was really quite good. Jonny had just finished reading the book which he also enjoyed.
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